This was so insanely predictable. I wouldnt be surprised if all the tech giants move to do the same. “you will own nothing”
You will own nothing
The beginning of HaaS (Hardware as a service)
[it is very bad]
It’s already here unfortunately. For example, you can now lease a PlayStation 5
We used to rent a PS2 from blockbuster back when it was the current gen lol
Yeah, and you could rent VCRs long before that.
Not the beginning, ‘Device as a Service’ has been the buzzword as of late, but basically has been a thing for decades. I remember twenty years ago scratching my head at why the company I worked at paid more to lease desktops for three years than it would have cost to just buy them outright, or even finance them.
The amount we spend on cloud hosting I keep suggesting (and I think they are starting to listen) that having on-prem hardware makes financial sense again. We have the staff to run them already anyway.
Heh, to some extent I think the hardware vendors have done this to themselves.
They try to balance “good TCO if you just buy it” but simultaneously say “but it sucks to own the equipment you need to pay us exorbitant services fees to make it easier to own”.
Nothing unique to IT, certainly car manufacturers love to first sell you on how robust the car is and then try to scare you into thinking it’ll turn to dust if you don’t buy extended warranties…
I do agree, but I like nividia ge force. The thing where my tv is a high end rig for like $10 for a month.
The cloud is already a thing.
I am so happy I built a new computer at the end of 2024. It may realistically last me two decades at this rate. I got one decade out of the last build.
I maxed out my configuration at 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD around the same time.
F U C K
T H A T
On a practical note: we need to mock this to the point that anyone who actually does it will instantly be a social pariah. This needs to be so embarrassingly stupid that the companies who offer it literally blush, something non-human entities typically can’t do. Gamers Nexus had a good video about NZXT doing this and broke down the math for the numerically challenged.
Any other ideas for making this fail in a country where the consumer protection agencies are often worse than nobody paying attention at all?
yes … but remember the horse armor? people do be gullible
I’d rather go back to 2007 and main my Intel Core 2 Duo than rent a PC. We’re going backwards not forwards guys…
It ain’t perfect but it’s pretty good and gets better all the time:
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/
Get an “old” m1 and rock out. Fuck Apple.
This is why I will never sell my M1 MBA.
M1 rules it’s lightning on asahi fedora
Honestly, the level of doublethink on display by some Apple fans is impressive normally but this is amazing. Apple “defeats” RAM prices by making you pay for something several times over while not actually getting to own it? Fucking bootlickers.
“defeat.” I think you mean “realize their evil ambitions.”
hahaha, no
Aaaand there we go, as predicted for the lady decade. You won’t own anything and you’ll like it. You will lease pur hardware and we will know everything about you.
Fuck all of this
I knew this was going to happen eventually but the fact that it’s happened so soon is insane to me.
Watch programmers and artists pay for lease.
A lot will. My last company leased their hardware. It cost more in the long run but for reasons I never understood it’s better having expenses paid out of opex versus capex.
Yeah, I was in a room with a customer that said point blank “even if it costs us more in opex within a year than buying it as capex, we would rather rent the stuff as opex”
Some accounting bullshit makes them hate having anything that they must count as an “asset” that goes down in value over time. Better to burn the money as “expense” than to have to manage the value burning off over years as “depreciation”.
Wow! How lucky are we?!! This also happens to coincide with Apple raising chocolate rations from 10 to 8!!!
Double plus good brother!
that’s a lot of chocolate.
